Turkey offers $14 million bounty for 23 wanted ISIL militants

Turkey's Interior Ministry has updated its list of "wanted terrorists" to include 23 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants following the jihadist organization's twin suicide bombing in the country's capital on Oct. 10, 2015. The government has offered rewards of more than 42 million Turkish liras (more than $14 million) for any information leading to the suspects' capture.

The ministry ranks those included on the list in five color-coded categories from red (most wanted), to blue, green, orange and grey.

Three militants, ?lhami Bal?, Mustafa Dokumac? and Yunus Durmaz, are on the red list with 4-million-lira rewards offered for each. 

Bal? is purportedly ISIL's "emir" in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, while Dokumac? is the leader of the extremist group dubbed "Dokumac?lar," which has carried out suicide bomb attacks and recruited militants for ISIL in the southeastern province of Ad?yaman. 

Yunus Emre Alagöz, one of the suicide bombers in the Oct. 10, 2015, Ankara attack which claimed 101 lives, and his brother, Abdurrahman Alagöz, who killed 33 students in a similar attack in Suruç on July 20, 2015, were both members of the "Dokumac?lar" group.

The third militant on the red list, Durmaz, is believed to be preparing for a bloody terror attack to follow up on the recent explosion in Istanbul's busy and touristic ?stiklal Avenue on March 19 that killed five, including the suicide bomber, and wounded 39. 

The remaining 20 ISIL militants are on the blue list, with rewards of up to 1.5 million liras to those who provide support in their capture. Three of the wanted militants, Mahmut Gazi Tatar, Hüseyin Peri and Sava? Y?ld?z, are believed to be held captive by the People's Protection Units (YPG)...